Gordon Brown goes on strike
We've had reports that following his declining poll performance, widespread criticism and a reduction in allowable expense claims the Prime Minister has gone on strike this morning.
Witnesses describe the bovine-featured PM marching up and down Downing Street, carrying a placard reading "Equal terms for equal PMs". Sources close to the Prime Minister claim that Mr. Brown is dissatisfied with the possibility that he may be removed from his role by the electorate this year, along with grievances about pay and conditions.
Government work may be affected by the strike. No. 10 has already stopped work completely, and there are rumours that senior civil servants in various government departments may also walk out in sympathy. If the strike continues or worsens, crucial work on the implementation of ID cards or the ban on mephedrone may be delayed.
So far though the public seem unconcerned. Trevor Gobbalott, a shopkeeper in Tottenham said "he can strike as long as he wants... the cunt can do precisely fuck all for the next 20 years for me".
Further updates are coming..
April 6th, 2010 - 12:13
Might as well be on strike – how much “running the country” does any PM do in between announcing the Election and Polling day?
April 6th, 2010 - 13:54
@Nick: Thankfully very little.
Now that the election’s been announced there are strict rules that prevent me from calling Gordon a twat and imploring you and everyone else not to vote for him. For that reason, I won’t.
April 7th, 2010 - 13:35
Are there?
How do these rules apply to you as opposed to, say, The Sun’s rather partisan antics? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(newspaper)#Support_for_Labour_at_the_1997_General_Election)
And as such – bollocks to the rules!
Although come to think of it, I’d have to move house to vote against Gordon. tempting thought though!
April 8th, 2010 - 09:28
Nick: IIRC there are different rules that apply to ‘broadcast’ as opposed to ‘publishing’. A radio station cannot give a ‘biased’ view during an election, but a newspaper can. Where (technically) this leaves internet radio, podcasts or blogs is unclear.
I’ll look up the rules before the next show, I’m sure they will be mentioned or discussed in some way on friday.
April 8th, 2010 - 11:37
Another example of technology making nonsense of legislation – to be expected I suppose!
The common sense interpretation* of that would be:
Internet Radio: Broadcast from the perspective of the end user, whilst technically being a single point-to-point connection (as multicast packets cannot traverse a network boundary) initiated by the receiver.
Podcasts: Publishing of multimedia.
Blogs: Publishing of multimedia.
I think that the difference that would be relied upon between IR and Podcasts is that the content of IR can be modified whilst the “listener” is connected. A stream is very similar in that respect to traditional broadcast methods, whilst a Podcast requires the listener to “possess” a local copy of the content prior to commencing listening.
* common sense does not apply to legal situations.
April 8th, 2010 - 11:42
I wasn’t concentrating there, and made a technical boo-boo. Multicast packets can be routed between networks; I should have said “broadcast packets” instead.